Brief: Biden presses truce agreement, Israel pounds Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: The US pressed Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce as heavy bombardment continued across Gaza. It is day 240 of the war. At least 36,300 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, Freelance journalist
- Kimberly Halkett, (@KimberlyHalkett), Al Jazeera White House Correspondent
- Imran Khan, (@ajimran), Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:14.0 | The U.S. pressed Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce as heavy bombardment continued across Gaza. |
| 0:21.6 | Today is Sunday, June 2nd. |
| 0:24.6 | It is day 240 of the war. |
| 0:28.6 | More than 36,300 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:38.0 | In the southern Gaza city of Han Yunus, |
| 0:40.9 | freelance journalist Akram al-Satari said that fighting was continuing all over Gaza. |
| 0:45.5 | In Raffa area, the situation is still extremely tense, |
| 0:49.4 | with the Israeli occupation forces advancing further towards the eastern part of Raffa city, Tulles-Sultan area, |
| 0:58.3 | where the Israeli forces have been pushing from the very eastern part of Raffh into the western |
| 1:04.6 | part and central Raffa area and from the very southern part of Raffa. |
| 1:09.6 | In North Gaza, damage was being assessed after two weeks of intense fighting in Jabalya refugee camp. |
| 1:15.6 | The destruction that has been taking place in the refugee camp is massive. |
| 1:20.6 | Dozens of Palestinians, bodies, dozens of bodies of the Palestinians were retrieved from under the rubble. |
| 1:28.3 | Up to 100 bodies were retrieved up to this particular moment. |
| 1:36.3 | Dr. Mohamed Salha works at Al-Aouda hospital near Jabalya. |
| 1:41.3 | Though he endured a two-week-long siege that left much of the hospital destroyed, |
| 1:46.1 | he received no respite from work. |
| 1:49.1 | In Friday, the Israeli occupation forces are withdraw from the hospital area. |
| 1:59.3 | And the hospital is reunctioning and starting angels and patient since the |
| 2:10.0 | Israeli occupation is gone and really we are in a disaster in the hospital. |
| 2:18.3 | We don't have fuel to running the hospital all the time. |
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